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Luke 1:1

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those: John 20:31; Acts 1:1-3; 1 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:16-19

most surely: Πεπληροφορημενον:, the passive participle of πληροφορεω: strong:G4135, from πληρης: strong:G4134, φορα:, full measure; and is applied to a ship fully laden, to a tree in full bearing, etc. Hence it implies that fulness of evidence by which any fact is supported, and also that confidence, or feeling of assent, by which facts so supported are believed.

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